savage

savage /'sævidʤ/
  • tính từ
    • hoang vu, hoang dại
      • savage scene: cảnh hoang vu
    • dã man, man rợ; không văn minh
      • savage life: cuộc sống dã man
    • tàn ác
      • savage persecution: sự khủng bố tàn ác
      • savage criticism: sự phê bình gay gắt
    • (thông tục) tức giận, cáu kỉnh
    • danh từ
      • người hoang dã, người man rợ
      • người tàn bạo dã man, người độc ác
      • ngoại động từ
        • cắn, giẫm lên (người hay các thú vật khác) (nói về ngựa)

      Xem thêm: barbarian, beast, wolf, brute, wildcat, pillory, crucify, barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious, feral, ferine, barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild, ferocious, fierce, furious



      savage

      Từ điển Collocation

      savage adj.

      VERBS be, look, seem, sound | become

      ADV. downright, really, very | increasingly The war became increasingly savage. | rather a rather savage dog

      Từ điển WordNet

        v.

      • attack brutally and fiercely
      • criticize harshly or violently; pillory, crucify

        The press savaged the new President

        The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage

        adj.

      • (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious

        a barbarous crime

        brutal beatings

        cruel tortures

        Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks

        a savage slap

        vicious kicks

      • wild and menacing; feral, ferine

        a ferocious dog

      • without civilizing influences; barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild

        barbarian invaders

        barbaric practices

        a savage people

        fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes

      • marked by extreme and violent energy; ferocious, fierce, furious

        a ferocious beating

        fierce fighting

        a furious battle

      English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

      savages
      syn.: barbarous cruel fierce inhumane ruthless uncivilized untamed wild
      ant.: Christian civilized